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New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz

Ten larger-than-life bronze sculptures of human bodies are installed in the middle of a city street. The bodies have no heads or arms, and are striding forward in five rows of two. While they are not naked, their wrinkled body-tight clothing makes no distinction between shirt and pants.
Sep 27, 2014, to Sep 27, 2015

This installation included a range of figurative works by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. Her monumentally-scaled sculptures of grouped human figures and birds in flight exemplify issues universal to humankind: the power of nature, the force of destruction and the resiliency of hope. Abakanowicz’s art is often inspired by her experiences and observations during World War II and its repressive postwar climate.

New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz Installation, Photo by Lee Stalsworth

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz manipulated textiles like burlap into figurative compositions, referencing vulnerable human individuality in the modern world.
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